A Substitute Battle Between Hamas and Israelis
Albrecht Classen
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Department of German Studies, University of Arizona, Arizona, United States
ABOUT THE STUDY
For many decades, Israel has been identified by many radicals on
the left as a brutal occupier of Palestinian land, and it is now
also branded as an Apartheid state like South Africa used to be.
In many cities worldwide, people have hence staged major
protests against the ‘aggressor’ Israel when Hamas in Gaza
actually initiated its massive rocket attacks against Tel Aviv and
many other cities and villages on the Israeli side. This is nothing
new, alas, and both sides continue to provoke each other to the
point that war breaks out continuously which neither side ever
being able to win with military might. Let’s face it, there are too
many zealots on both sides, with the Orthodox Jews and other
radical-conservative groups in Israel bent on constant land grabs
occupying Palestinians property, and with Hamas operating
openly as a terrorist organization hiding behind the civil
population in Gaza, launching their thousands of missiles from
schools, hospitals, mosques, and other non-military entities
against Israeli cities.
They know that they will not achieve their goal of defeating
Israel, but they try to win a propaganda war in the media,
evoking an extremely ugly and hypocritical form of anti-Semitism
in the western world once again. Their call until today is to
eliminate the entire Jewish state, which would imply the killing
of millions of Jews. Iran is their strongest supporter, whereas
hardly any other Arab country is on their side. Egypt, for
instance, in close cooperation with Israel, has hermetically shut
off the border to Gaza, which the media hardly ever reports
about. Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is nervously trying to stay
out of the conflict because they have their own problems with
the economic crisis there. Syria continues to be embroiled in its
own civil war, with Assad being responsible for hundreds of
thousands of dead among their civil population. In short, it is an
extremely ugly picture.
There are numerous calls to the US government under Biden to
get involved and to force both sides to stop fighting. That is
easier said than done and ignores the highly selfish background
motives in Gaza and in Jerusalem. The Palestinian government
under Abbas is basically sidelined by Hamas, which wants to
take over control by force, destroying all democratic structures.
On the other side, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, who has served since 2009, currently faces serious
criminal charges and had failed recently to form a new
government. This new military conflict is a gift from heaven for
him to hold on to power and to stand in as the ‘admired’
protector of his people, whereas he only wants to protect himself
from the prosecutors. Of course, the religious right in Israel
bears considerable guilt as well; with their illegal settlement
policy they regularly drive a thorn into the sides of all
Palestinians, and to hide their criminal occupations, they secretly
welcome the rocket attacks.
Ironically, the new close economic cooperation between Israel
and the Gulf states is moving forward, with oil pipelines and
train tracks planned which would create a larger economic
region sidestepping the Suez Canal and hence Egypt. Hamas
realizes that their days are counted since they have nothing to
offer to any of the Arab states and to their own people. Only
Iran truly supports them, so the entire conflict is, once again, a
substitute war between Iran and the West. Hence, provoking
Israeli counterattacks which unfortunately also kill civilians
despite early phone call warnings by the Israeli military to all
inhabitants of critical buildings where the Hamas is hiding is
certainly a smart terrorist tactic, and western protestors simply
fall for that ideological trap. The situation, in short, is highly
complicated, and those who march in the streets in protest
against Israel would be well advised to read up a little more on
this difficult and complex situation. The real power players
operate in the background, and no one has the lives of the
civilians really in mind.
Journal of Political Sciences and Public
Affairs
Opinion Article
Correspondence to: Albrecht Classen, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona, Arizona, United States, E-mail: aclassen@arizona.edu
Received: 01-Nov-2022, Manuscript No. JPSPA-22-22413; Editor assigned: 03-Nov-2022, PreQC No. JPSPA-22-22413 (PQ); Reviewed: 23-Nov-2022, QC
No. JPSPA-22-22413; Revised: 04-Dec-2022, Manuscript No. JPSPA-22-22413 (R); Published: 08-Dec-2022,
Citation: Classen A (2022) A Substitute Battle Between Hamas and Israelis. J Pol Sci Pub Aff. 10: 392.
Copyright: © 2022 Classen A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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DOI: 10.35248/2332-0761.22.10.392
